If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.